Re: How many books did you lose this year?

[Robert Hiebert <rhiebert@SD6.BC.CA>]

Hello Holly,

A subject near and dear to my heart! (We Canadians, by the way, are in school
until the end of June.)

Ours is a grade 8 to 12 school with a collection of about 10 000 items and NO
security. My annual thefts are about the same as yours -- 150. (Has been around
this number for 3 or 4 years now; it was much higher when I started.) A few
years ago I collected some stats from people on this list about their thefts.
The general trend was that, with security, losses were very low, sometimes
single digit. It makes me think that either something is wrong with your
equipment or the magnetic strips are easy to remove.

To cheer you up, one librarian (who worked at a private girls school as I
recall) with a collection of 15 or 20 thousand items and no security system had
five thefts per year! That's a culture I'd like to tap into.

For more info, search the list archives(try:
http://ericir.syr.edu/plweb-cgi/fastweb?searchform+listservs  ); this subject
comes up from time to time.

Regards,

Robert

Robert Hiebert
Librarian, Golden Secondary School
www.sd6.bc.ca/gss/library/
Fax: 250 344 7116
rhiebert@sd6.bc.ca


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I know many of you are on vacation now, but if you're not would you take a
minute to express approximately how many books you lost this year.  Despite
the fact that we have a 3M security gate we have lost over 150 books (out
of a collection of 10,000) this year...I am sick!  And those are not books
that kids have lost and paid for...they are ones that just walked out the
door!

I considered banning bookbags last year, but wasn't sure if it would be
worth the hassle.  Now I'm reconsidering for next year.  Do you have a
non-bookbag policy and how much does it help?

TIA

Holly
Holly Tesar, Librarian
Excelsior Springs High School
612 Tiger Drive
Excelsior Springs, MO  64024
dsh000@mail.connect.more.net
http://www.exsmo.com/eshslibrary/library.htm
PH:  816-630-9210

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